Overview

• After nearly 48 hours of arguments, a control judge on September 11 issued a renewed vinculación a proceso for alleged operations with resources of illicit origin, the FGR reported.
• The federal case alleges illicit movements exceeding 156 million pesos linked to Sandoval’s time in office.
• The court kept the measure of prisión preventiva justificada, so Sandoval remains held at the El Rincón federal facility in Tepic.
• Days earlier, a Nayarit court found him guilty of using a forged document to take a 58-hectare property in San Blas known as “El Sueño.”
• The U.S. Treasury’s OFAC sanctioned Sandoval in 2019 for corruption and alleged cartel ties, freezing assets under U.S. jurisdiction.